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Evolving money laundering risks for EMIs: Insights from the upcoming NRA

The Payments Association

Jane Jee Ambassador, TPA “Despite leaner compliance teams, EMIs are subject to the UK’s strict MLRs and FCA oversight, and often deploy advanced anti-financial crime tools that rival or surpass traditional banks. Between 2020 and 2024, the FCA recorded a 231% rise in MLR-related supervisory activity for EMIs and PSPs.

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Understanding PCI DSS, PSD2, and AML in Payment Processing: A Practical Guide

Finextra

AML compliance: Fighting financial crime Criminals always look for ways to misuse payment systems. It’s a set of rules and practices designed to detect, prevent, and report financial crimes. AML stops financial crime. More growth. AML compliance helps you stop them before they succeed.

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NICE Actimize Launches AI Tools for Streamlined Financial Crime Reporting

The Fintech Times

NICE Actimize introduces three advanced generative AI-based solutions aimed at combating financial crime and streamlining investigations and reporting processes. “Generative AI is a powerful tool in fighting financial crime,” said Craig Costigan , CEO, NICE Actimize.

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Cracking the Code of White-Collar Crime with Sumsub

Fintech News

The battle against financial crime is an ever-evolving challenge requiring expert knowledge, cutting-edge technology, and continuous learning. As white-collar criminals tirelessly innovate their methods to commit financial crimes, the question arises: How can one step ahead in this high-stakes game?

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FinCEN Files Show Banks’ ‘Whack-a-Mole’ Battle Against KYC/AML

PYMNTS

To that end, and as reported by BuzzFeed , documents submitted by banks to the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) show that several of the largest global banks moved money on behalf of scores of individuals and enterprises involved in criminal financial activity.

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Money mules create a real-time AML problem: Here’s how to address it

The Payments Association

Fraud Prevention solutions have honed AI-based capabilities, including supervised machine learning (ML), which can be applied to mules to detect illicit transactions in real time. Additional outgoing transfers are stopped, and a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) is filed within the regulatory deadline.

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Stopping Financial Crime in Australia

FICO

Stopping financial crime in Australia is an age-old problem, but today’s criminals have become so sophisticated that long-standing anti-money laundering (AML) systems and processes are no longer keeping up. Like other advanced financial sectors, Australia has a complex and evolving regulatory environment. However, in the U.S.